Dyson has its own prestigious award for design concepts and the winner was recently announced. Here is Electrolux’s own version of similar thinking, The Mab.
This strikes me as being very ambitious but perhaps the future is nearer than I think. Very clever idea. I want one!

2012 saw some truly amazing leaps forward in science and technology. From artificial jaws to the discovery of the mysterious Higgs-Boson particle. From eye-implants restoring sight to the blind to flexible solar panels, cheap solar panels that could take on our dependency of fossil fuels. And Microsoft patents the Holodeck *rolls eyes*

So the end of the world came and went without anything happening back on the 21st December 2012. But when is the next forecast of doom scheduled for? Such a positive posting this is, but quite an interesting read nonetheless.